Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 4
Commas are not sprinkles either: "The, dog, ran, quickly" is just noise; and in texts people use them loosely ("omg, wait, lol, ok"), which is fine for texting, while school writing follows the rules.
Who acts: Commas, dog, people, school writing · What happens: not be, run, be, use, wait, follow · To what, where: sprinkles, noise, texts, rules · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Commas: lists, clauses and clarity» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commas, dog, people, school writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commas | comma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprinkles | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprinkles | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sprinkles | advmod |
| 4 | sprinkles | sprinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | either | either | ADV | _ | 4 sprinkles | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprinkles | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 The | punct |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dog | punct |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 noise | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quickly | punct |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 noise | cop |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 noise | advmod |
| 18 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprinkles | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 use | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 use | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 texts | case |
| 22 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 use | obl |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 use | nsubj |
| 24 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sprinkles | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 use | obj |
| 26 | loosely | loosely | ADV | _ | 24 use | advmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 wait | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 wait | punct |
| 29 | omg | omg | INTJ | _ | 31 wait | discourse |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 omg | punct |
| 31 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 use | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lol | punct |
| 33 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 31 wait | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ok | punct |
| 35 | ok | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wait | advcl |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 wait | punct |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 wait | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fine | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 fine | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 fine | cop |
| 41 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 use | conj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 texting | case |
| 43 | texting | texting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fine | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 follows | punct |
| 45 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 48 follows | mark |
| 46 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 writing | compound |
| 47 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 follows | nsubj |
| 48 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 use | advcl |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 rules | det |
| 50 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 follows | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprinkles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Commas | sprinkles | either property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run in a quote | past | the dog | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | noise | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | use | infinitive | people | texts = text | texts | loosely property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | for texting; fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | follow | present | school writing | the rules | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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